I've always felt that AWD
I've always felt that AWD vehicles were safer ever since a car came over the crest of a hill in my lane on a two lane highway on a rainy night about 25 years ago. There was no shoulder and I was forced to take to a steep grassy slope on the side of the road. My AWD Subaru easily clawed its way back on the highway. Since then I have never purchased a vehicle without AWD -- now driving our 7th and 8th Subaru. Nice to have data to support the safety advantage of AWD.